LIMITATIONS
• Do not use on anyone under 2 years old.
• Children aged 2-14 years should be tested by an adult.
• Do not use on anyone who is prone to nosebleeds or has had facial or head
injury/surgery in the last 6 months.
• Testing for asymptomatic individuals should be performed at least twice over three
days, with at least 24 hours and no more than 48 hours between tests. You may need
to purchase additional tests to perform this serial (repeat) testing.
• There is a higher chance of false negative results with home use tests than with
laboratory-based molecular tests. This means that there is a higher chance this test
will give you a negative result when you have COVID-19.
• Serial testing (i.e., testing every day or every other day) is more likely to detect
COVID-19, especially when you do not have any symptoms.
• The test detects both viable (live) and nonviable SARS-CoV-2. Test performance
depends on the amount of virus (antigens) in the sample and may or may not
correlate with viral culture results performed on the same sample.
• A negative test result may occur if the level of antigen in the sample is below the
detection limit of the test.
• Failure to follow the test procedure correctly may results in false negative or false
positives results and/or invalidate the test result.
• Test results must be evaluated in conjunction with other clinical data available to the
physician.
• Positive test results do not exclude co-infection with other pathogens.
• Negative test results are not indicative of the presence/absence of other viral or
bacterial pathogens.
• Negative results should be treated as presumptive and confirmed with an
FDA-authorized molecular assay, if necessary, for clinical management.
• Performance of nasal swabs collected from patients without symptoms or other
epidemiological reasons to suspect COVID-19 infection or for serial screening, when
tested twice over two to three days with at least 24 but not more than 48 hours
between tests has not yet been determined; a study to support use will be completed.
• If the differentiation of specific coronaviruses and strains is needed, additional testing,
in consultation with state or local public health departments, is required.
• The amount of antigen in a sample may decrease as the duration of illness increases.
Specimens collected after seven days are more likely to be negative compared to
RT-PCR.
• The performance of this test was established based on the evaluation of a limited
number of clinical specimens collected between May, 2021 and October, 2021. The
clinical performance has not been established in all circulating variants but is
anticipated to be reflective of the prevalent variants in circulation at the time and
location of the clinical evaluation. Performance at the time of testing may vary
depending on the variants circulating, including newly emerging strains of
SARS-CoV-2 and their prevalence, which change over time.